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Enterprise Customers Gain Business Insight and Competitive Advantage with NetApp and Cloudera

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and PALO ALTO,
Calif.-November 7, 2011-Global competition today is
generating more, bigger, and more complex data than ever before,
from point-of-sale data to mobile phone data to scientific and
market research information. There is an opportunity for enterprise
customers to exploit new ways to manage and analyze this data to
spark innovation, make better decisions, and drive successful
outcomes that will create a competitive business advantage. Apache
Hadoop has emerged to process and analyze large, complex datasets
in distributed computing environments and help businesses improve
insight into their growing data.

NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced a
preconfigured, ready-to-deploy solution called NetApp® Open
Solution for Hadoop that will enable customers to maximize the
value of their enterprise Hadoop implementations with improved
flexibility and performance and lower total cost of ownership.
NetApp and Cloudera, Inc., teamed to distribute Cloudera's
Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Enterprise,
a subscription service comprised of Cloudera Support and Hadoop
management software, with NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop to speed
enterprise deployment and production use of Apache Hadoop.

NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop
Removes Barriers to Analyzing Data

NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop is a
packaged, ready-to-deploy modular Hadoop cluster for enterprise
Hadoop deployments, with the following features and benefits:

NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop provides
customers with the access and analytics to mine value from their
data and to extract profit from their big-data assets. Customers
can leverage their existing server and database systems for
analytics on extremely large datasets and maximize the return on
investment of their data over time. Now customers have a pathway to
start with Hadoop.

"Customers are looking for business
advantages from the wealth of their unstructured data. Today, it's
like finding a needle in a haystack," said Rich Clifton, senior
vice president and general manager, NetApp Technology Enablement
and Solutions Organization. "NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop will
help customers get answers fast and process more, as well as
provide the reliability and performance that our customers have
come to expect from NetApp."

NetApp and Cloudera Deliver
Best-in-Class Hadoop Solution
NetApp and Cloudera give organizations an open, nonproprietary
solution that is highly scalable and offers enterprise storage
features that improve performance and reduce costs. Joint customers
can leverage Hadoop to accelerate adoption of analytic applications
that deliver real-time results across intense data and
computational workloads. Together, NetApp and Cloudera are
delivering an open solution that enables a best-in-class
partner-based solution stack.

CDH is a major enabler for the enterprise
adoption and production use of Apache Hadoop. Enterprises can
manage the complete operational lifecycle of their Apache Hadoop
systems because CDH facilitates deep visibility into Hadoop
clusters. It also automates the ongoing system changes needed to
maintain and improve the quality of operations.

"More applications work on CDH than any other
Hadoop distribution, and Cloudera is real-world proven by a broad
range of companies across many verticals. By partnering with
NetApp, customers now have more choices and the ability to deploy
an open Hadoop solution with a leading storage vendor," said Ed
Albanese, head of Business Development for Cloudera. "We're excited
about the increasing diversity of architectures that enables Hadoop
to be used in more places and deliver greater infrastructure
efficiency, predictability, and simplicity."

"NetApp has a long history of supporting open
standards and giving our customers the flexibility and efficiency
they need to drive results from their data. Our strategy for Hadoop
is no different, and we will give customers choice for their Hadoop
implementations, from enterprise-class to open-source Apache Hadoop
solutions," said Clifton. "Cloudera strengthens our
enterprise-ready NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop, and together we
make deployment of enterprise Hadoop easier, simplify management,
and reduce the cost of deployments."

Visit NetApp and Cloudera at Hadoop
World
To learn more, visit NetApp at Hadoop World, the largest conference
of Apache Hadoop practitioners, developers, and companies, in booth
#2 in the Platinum Sponsor Expo. For a complete agenda, visit
www.hadoopworld.com.

NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop
Availability
The NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop includes both the NetApp
E-Series Storage platform and the FAS platform to deliver the
performance and data management capabilities customers require for
their enterprise Hadoop implementations. NetApp Open Solution for
Hadoop will be available in December 2011 through NetApp direct
sales. For more information, visit www.netapp.com.

About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions
that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business
breakthroughs. Our commitment to living our core values and
consistently being recognized as a great place to work around the
world are fundamental to our long-term growth and success, as well
as the success of our pathway partners and customers. Discover our
passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster
at www.netapp.com.

About Cloudera
Cloudera, the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services,
enables data driven enterprises to easily derive business value
from all their structured and unstructured data. Cloudera's
Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) is available to download
for free at www.cloudera.com/downloads
and is the most comprehensive, tested, stable and widely deployed
distribution of Hadoop in commercial and non-commercial
environments. For the fastest path to reliably using this
completely open source technology in production for Big Data
analytics and answering previously un-addressable big questions,
organizations can subscribe to Cloudera Enterprise, comprised of
Cloudera Support and a portfolio of software including Cloudera
Management Suite. Cloudera also offers consulting services,
training and certification on Apache technologies. As the top
contributor to the Apache open source community and with tens of
thousands of nodes under management across customers in financial
services, government, telecommunications, media, web, advertising,
retail, energy, bioinformatics, pharma/healthcare, university
research, oil and gas and gaming, Cloudera's depth of experience
and commitment to sharing expertise are unrivaled. www.cloudera.com.